▪ a tendency to do something:"John had the enviable knack of falling asleep anywhere"Similartendency topropensity forhabit ofway ofproneness toaptness tobent forliability toleaning towardspredisposition todisposition toinclination topenchant forreadiness to
Word Originlate Middle English (originally denoting a clever or deceitful trick): probably related to obsolete knack ‘sharp blow or sound’, of imitative origin (compare with Dutch knak ‘crack, snap’).
